HR Business Operations / Program Manager

HR Program Manager

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin corporate functions, providing centralized support across Blue Origin business unit teams, functions, and locations.

Role Overview

The HR Program Manager is a partner to the HR leader, helping drive alignment, execution, and operating discipline across the HR organization. This role is designed to be a force multiplier, ensuring that strategic HR priorities are translated into clear plans, coordinated actions, measurable outcomes, and sustained momentum across the HRBP team and key functional partners.

The successful candidate will operate as an integrator, orchestrator, and problem solver — connecting work across teams, identifying gaps or dependencies, surfacing risks early, and helping the organization execute with greater clarity and discipline.

At its best, this role enables the broader HR team to scale their impact by ensuring initiatives move forward, leadership rhythms run smoothly, decisions are documented, and priorities remain aligned across stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Connect work across HRBPs, HR Centers of Excellence, business partners, and key stakeholders.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and risks across HR initiatives.
• Translate strategic direction into clear actions, owners, timelines, and deliverables.
• Drive follow-through on key leadership decisions and ensure progress does not stall.
• Help create standard work, project structures, and execution mechanisms that improve consistency across the HR team.
• Synthesize inputs across multiple leaders and teams into clear themes, recommendations, and action plans.
• Build and maintain the cadence for HR leadership meetings, HRBP syncs, COE connections, monthly business reviews, quarterly business reviews, and other key operating forums.
• Prepare agendas, pre-read materials, briefing documents, and follow-up actions.
• Ensure meetings are structured around decisions, risks, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with HR leaders and HRBPs to gather inputs, validate content, and prepare high-quality materials.
• Build project plans, timelines, milestone trackers, and governance routines.
• Coordinate stakeholder input across HRBPs, COEs, business leaders, and enabling functions.
• Schedule and facilitate project checkpoints, working sessions, and phase-gate reviews.
• Synthesize updates, insights, and decision points for HR leadership.
• Ensure projects move from concept to execution with clear ownership, deliverables, and outcomes.
• Support initiatives related to workforce strategy, organizational design, talent planning, performance management, employee relations, operating model effectiveness, and HR transformation.
• Partner with HRBPs and analytics partners to identify relevant metrics, dashboards, and review materials.
• Support preparation of monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Help convert data into insights, risks, actions, and leadership recommendations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in HR, talent management, program management, project management, organizational effectiveness, or a related function.
• Experience supporting senior leaders or leadership teams in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear executive-ready materials.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, create structure, and drive clarity across multiple priorities.
• Experience building operating rhythms, dashboards, business reviews, or leadership governance routines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a Chief of Staff, HR Program Manager, HR Business Operations, HR Strategy, or HR Transformation role.
• Experience supporting HRBP teams or working closely with HR Centers of Excellence.
• Experience in a manufacturing, operations, aerospace, technology, or high-growth environment.
• Strong understanding of HR processes such as workforce planning, talent reviews, performance management, employee relations, organizational design, and leadership development.
• Experience preparing materials for senior executives, including business reviews, decision documents, and strategic updates.
• Experience using data and metrics to support business decisions and organizational insights.
• Project management certification or formal program management experience is a plus.

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Background Check

• Required for all positions: Blue's Standard Background Check
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing (CDL drivers only), vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.
• Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical

Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on "Know Your Rights," please see here.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin's Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. Please note this is a publicly